Indoor cycling world championships 2009

Indoor Cycling World Championships 2009
date		November 6-8, 2009
Host country		Portugal
venue		Tavira
winner
Bike ball		Switzerland
Artistic bike 1 series women		Germany
Artificial bike 1 series men		Germany
Artificial bike 2-person women		Germany
Artificial bike mixed 2		Germany
Artificial bike for 4 women		Germany
Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Germany	5	5	0	10
2	Switzerland	1	0	3	4th
3	Austria	0	1	2	3
4th	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
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The 2009 Indoor Cycling World Championships took place in Tavira from November 6th to 8th, 2009 . There were competitions in bike ball and artificial cycling . The most successful nation was Germany, which won five gold medals. They were able to win all disciplines except for the cycling competition.

A total of 147 athletes took part, almost all of whom come from Europe or Asia , with the exception of an artificial cyclist from Australia .

Bike ball

A two-man team competition was held for the men.

mode

The tournament consisted of two groups: Group A with the six strongest nations from the previous year and Group B with five weaker teams.

In both groups there was a round in which everyone played against everyone once. In the intermediate round of the Group A teams, the team placed second in the preliminary round met the fifth placed and the third placed fourth. The two winners of this intermediate round and the winner of the preliminary round qualified for the semi-finals. In the first semi-final, the winner of the preliminary round met the winner of the game between the second and fifth place. The loser of this game had to play in a second semi-final against the winner from the game between the third and fourth placed. The two winners from the semi-finals eventually played out the world champions in the final. The winner of group B finally competed against the sixth in group A for promotion or to remain in group A.

Group A

rank	country	player	player
1.	Switzerland	Marcel Waldispühl	Peter Jiricek
2.	Germany	Uwe Berner	Matthias King
3.	Austria	Simon King	Dietmar Schneider
4th	Czech Republic	Jiří Hrdlička	Radim Hason
5.	Belgium	Christoph Baudu	Rik Deuvaert
6th	Japan	Naoya Kinoshita	Matsuda Ko

Promotion-relegation game group A / B

Japan failed to stay up and lost to France.

 Japan - France 2: 3  

Group B

rank	country	player	player
1.	France	Stéphane Bauer	Frédéric Doell
2.	Hong Kong	Man Fai Lo	Wing Tai Ho
3.	Malaysia	Zulkifli Senin	Shamsinar Abd Halim
4th	Hungary	Tamas Szitas	Vilmos Toma
5.	Slovakia	Attila Hanko	Tamas Czekus

Artistic cycling

There were competitions in 1-man, 2-man and 4-man artificial cycling for women, in 1-man artificial cycling for men and 2-man artificial cycling in an open class.

mode

Each participant or each team had to drive a freestyle. This lasted a maximum of six minutes and included 28 for the individual starters and 22 for the duos, each with a certain level of difficulty, which, added to the basic number of points, served as the basis for the assessment (submitted points). The end result was obtained after deducting the points of failure (points left out).

Women

singles

A total of 25 athletes from 13 nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Germany	Corinna Hein	180.00	172.19
2.	Germany	Sandra Beck	178.40	163.35
3.	Austria	Denise Boller	180.50	154.51

Double

A total of 15 teams from 10 nations took part in the competition.

The German duo Schultheis / Sprinkmeier set a new world record in the final round with 150.75 points in the qualifying round.

Medalist

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	executed
1.	Germany	Katrin Schultheis	Sandra Sprinkmeier	157.20	150.74
2.	Germany	Nadja Thürmer	Julia Thürmer	156.40	133.14
3.	Switzerland	Barbara Morf	Nina Bommeli	129.10	119.63

Team of 4

The field of participants consisted of 5 teams.

Medalist

rank	country	Female drivers	established	executed
1.	Germany	Manuela Dieterle Katja Gaisser Ines Rudolf Simone Rudolf	199.20	185.19
2.	Austria	Kathrin Hagen Silke Melbinger Melanie Melbinger Martina Schwar	200.50	182.36
3.	Switzerland	Anja Gollmann Andrea Keller Maura Stiefel Nora Willener	186.20	167.09

Men's singles

A total of 24 athletes from 14 nations took part in the competition.

Medalist

rank	country	driver	established	executed
1.	Germany	David Schnabel	201.00	194.39
2.	Germany	Florian Blab	200.50	177.29
3.	Hong Kong	Sum Yee Samuel Yu	164.20	148.90

Mixed doubles

A total of 13 duos from 10 nations took part.

Medalist

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	executed
1.	Germany	Ann-Kathrin Egert	Stephan Rauch	144.70	133.33
2.	Germany	Felix Blümmel	Florian Blümmel	148.00	124.59
3.	Hong Kong	Beni Jost	Joel Schmid	129.00	115.78

Web links

• All results on www.radball.at